The Metaverse and its new set of cloud-native enterprise and consumer applications with strict SLAs have a massive impact on existing networks, which are becoming much more complex as a massive build-out of distributed cloud edges is taking place. A change in the way we build and operate the IP networks is required to make them consumable in a cloud-native way by the applications they support. This presentation explains why network operators should embrace Kubernetes, its tooling and ecosystem to automate the IP network along with the cloud native applications, compute and storage